Archive for the 'Charity events' Category

Designers Against Aids

This is a great collaboration of designers and celebrities in an effort to spread the awareness of HIV and Aids, which currently is affecting many people, young and old, from all over the world. The collection is titled Fashion Against Aids, and will be available in H&M Departments everywhere beginning in February 2008. Many popular […]

Kevan Hall Spring/Summer 2008

The theme for Kevan Hall’s collection of Spring designs was a Safari, and he did a beautiful job promoting that theme. The show was designed to motivate and inspire people to support African related charities. Hall is working in collaboration with Jewels & Pinstripes, which is a celebrity gift bag service, to create five luxury […]

Angel Sanchez Spring/Summer 2008

The Angel Sanchez Spring/Summer collection was part of the “Catwalk for a Cure” held in Houston, Texas in October. The show was held to benefit the Breast Care Center of Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa. The pieces, although they did not seem to follow a theme as most runway collections do, were all beautiful. […]

Chloë Sevigny To Launch Fashion Line

According to WWD and Vogue, Chloë Sevigny will be showing at New York Fashion Week. A newcomer to the schedule, she’ll be presenting a collection for Opening Ceremony - a cool concept store that switches the nations of its designers yearly. Apparently, Opening Ceremony wants to branch out with its own signature line for the […]

The End of the Prada Auction: Paillette Prevails

Over the last three weeks, we’ve been reporting on the Prada sample auction (back links here and here), an event put together to raise money for Fondazione San Raffaele, a medical research facility in Italy, and showcase some one-of-a-kind Prada items that never made it to the runway. My favorite is still the now long-gone […]

Prada Auction Continues & I Look for a Thousand Euros

Last week, we were all over the announcement of a Prada samples’ auction for charity. Now, we’re almost halfway through and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (the days they put new items up for auction), I get all excited and giddy to see what’s next. I was a little disappointed by some of the bags […]